One eye lined a rippling void in our favor Two lights aimed to dither coherence astray A spark may be one A pyre, another Two methods by which we may aptly narrate These volumes which artifice rendered impassive Some lifetimes ago As if carved out of stone Upon faces that masons could not replicate
We taxed ourselves harsh by indulging old spirits But graver the crime was to give them a name The deepest transgression of all, incorporeal Our memories in the end gave us away Yes, nostalgia seeps in through the gaps in our logic To shepherd the currents beneath those blue waves As if tides could be altered by such visitation And oceans stood frozen with forces concealed by Some gravities borne of celestial weight
Reluctant to wake and depart Colorado My surrogate mother Our canvas to paint Expressions whipped dry by the skirt of her leather And eardrums wrung pierced by the crags and the scree If I leave now this portal may vanish forever I could leave my sins here in the chill of the Springs Release them down mineshaft chutes long since abandoned In futile attempts to abscond the unclean And rise to leave haunts of offenses unstated To come crawling back from the dead Southbound with me
Hold out, I was told With arms to receive You'll make sure to keep your hands steady for me I'm soaked to the core with my soul and voice breaking With eyes for your heart and its formless cascade And my pail with dozens of holes to redeem An abundance of squalls brewed behind both those seams The light crosses your path And you won't look away When I question by which laws such mirrors are made
And it all seems so cruel that we're drawn here to suffer To be teased and transfixed by what glimmers remain I can drum up what strengths I have left to ignite you I'll shout even louder when you forget your name I'll relearn every way that I've known how to love you But we're taught to process what we cannot maintain Yes, our hearts are irreparably torn in this way